39-41 Port Street
Manchester
M1 2EQ
0161 237 9949
Modern Pub
Port Street Beer House was the pioneer of the modern beer bars that are now found all over Manchester’s Northern Quarter (photo 1). It was opened in 2011 by Jonny and Charlotte Heyes and was arguably the first bar in the city to combine a wide selection of beer types and dispense methods, with seven cask pumps, 18 keg lines and hundreds of bottles and cans.
Changing beers (both cask and keg) come from breweries like Track, Thornbridge, Kirkstall, Red Willow, Five Point and Neptune. Lagers on tap include Veltins and Camerons along with changing beers usually form Germany. Bottled and canned beers come in a huge range of styles from the UK, USA, and Europe and include the uncompromising Cantillon gueuze from Belgium. Pub grub is limited to pies and sausage rolls.
There is a compact bar downstairs and a more spacious upstairs room, along with a beer garden at the back. Events include tap takeovers, beer launches and a quiz. Manchester illustrator David Bailey created the large cartoon on the outside wall and the framed prints inside with their clever send ups of the beer drinking scene (photos 1, 3 & 4).
